Ainė Ramonaitė
Biographic Data
| ID | 268953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ainė Ramonaitė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ainė |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramonaitė |
| SIGNATURE | RAMONAITĖ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vilnius University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1867-1852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What drives Voter Affective Polarization – Issue Positions or Party Support? Results of a Conjoint Experiment
The article analyzes affective polarization in Lithuania among voters of different parties, aiming to determine what drives their political antagonism: partisanship or specific issue-based attitudes, such as support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, views on same-sex marriage, support for the European Union, evaluations of the Soviet period, and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines. The study employs a new tool in Lithuanian political scienc…
Gyventi šalia agresoriaus
What determines the willingness to defend one’s country in states that live next to an aggressive neighbor? This article analyzes three countries with similar geopolitical situations – Lithuania, Latvia, and Taiwan. The aim of the article is to assess the level of willingness to defend one’s country and the factors influencing it in Lithuania, Latvia, and Taiwan, based on public opinion surveys conducted in all three countries. The article is div…
Tracing the Influence of the Folklore Revival on Lithuania’s National Independence Movement
The article explores the connections between the Lithuanian folklore revival movement, which emerged in the 1960s, and the Lithuanian national independence movement of the late 1980s.Using resource mobilization theory, it seeks to identify tangible links and resources that connected these two movements, rather than focusing on psychological or abstract symbolic ties.Based on over 100 oral history interviews conducted by the author and colleagues,…
The Collapse of Communism as the End of the Modernity Project? Post-Soviet Transformation Narratives of the Lithuanian Population
The article analyses how Lithuanian inhabitants remember and assess the post-communist transformation and searches for the narratives that can be interpreted through the lens of modernization theories. The paper draws on a dataset of 43 biographical interviews collected in 2021 in Panevėžys city and Panevėžys district. Employing the method of thematic narrative analysis, four dominant narratives of post-soviet transformation were identified: “dem…
Does communist nostalgia lead to Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs
Why are people in Central and Eastern Europe more hesitant towards COVID-19 vaccination and more prone to believe in COVID-19 related conspiracy theories than other Europeans? The article claims that the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs in the post-communist region might be fostered by communist nostalgia. Drawing on the survey data from Lithuania, I show that communist nostalgia is one of the best predictors of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, …
The Phenomenon of the Freedom Party
The article analyzes the reasons of success of the Freedom Party in the 2020 Seimas elections. The case of Freedom Party is particularly interesting as it did not appeal to the median voter like previous new parties, but took a clearly liberal stance on such vulnerable issues (in rather conservative Lithuanian society) as LGBT rights. The article examines several probable accounts of the success story of the party: the newness of the party, the v…
Exploring Political Bias in Captured Media
The article presents an exploratory study of regional media content in Lithuania, carried out using computational content analysis methods. The aim of the study is to reveal the effects of media capture on media content. More specifically, it analyses if and how local government’s control over regional mass media leads to media bias. In addition, the research aims to test the methods of automatic content analysis for the texts in Lithuanian langu…
Interviewer Effect on the Survey Data in Lithuania
The article analyses the interviewer effect on the data of three public opinion surveys on political attitudes of the population conducted in Lithuania. The study discusses why in international comparative studies Lithuania stands out for its extremely high interviewer effect, which raises serious doubts about the reliability and suitability of the data for analysis. The article, first, reviews the reasons for the interviewer effect and the metho…
Mapping the political space in Lithuania
Party politics in Europe is mainly structured along two dominant dimensions: economic left–right and cultural liberalism–conservatism. This article explores whether these dimensions explain party competition in post-communist Lithuania. The study begins with an analysis of the policy space in Lithuania using party elite data and continues by exploring the attitudes of party supporters. The study demonstrates that an apparent ideological structuri…
This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries
This paper was co-authored by Jurgen Maier, Thorsten Faas, Berthold Rittberger, Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, Kalliope Agapiou Josifides, Susan Banducci, Paolo Bellucci, Magnus Blomgren, Inta Brikse, Karol Chwedczuk-Szulc, Marina Costa Lobo, Mikolaj Czesnik, Anastasia Deligiaouri, Tomaz Dezelan, Wouter deNooy, Aldo Di Virgilio, Florin Fesnic, Danica Fink-Hafner, Marijana Grbesa, Carmen Greab, Andrija Henjak, David Nicolas Hopmann, David Johann, Gabo…
Qui a conduit la « Révolution chantante » à travers la Lituanie ? Une typologie des pionniers du mouvement du Sąjūdis
L'article explore l'expansion de Mouvement réformateur de Lituanie (Sąjūdis) qui a contribué à la chute du régime soviétique. En particulier, il enquête sur ceux qui ont été les pionniers du mouvement dans différentes régions. En prenant appui sur l'approche théorique de Pierre Bourdieu et les données de l'histoire orale, l'article analyse les conditions objectives et subjectives qui ont conduit certains vers les rangs des « révolutionnaires » et…
Polyphony and Multidimensionalism of the Traditional Music
Polinkis Balsuoti Už Partiją Kaip Naujas Elgesio Per Rinkimus Analizės Būdas
Šiame straipsnyje analizuojamos iki šiol Lietuvoje nenaudoto preferencijų per rinkimus matavimo įrankio – polinkio balsuoti už partiją (PBP) – atveriamos galimybės ir jį naudojant kylančios metodologinės problemos. Straipsnyje pristatoma rinkėjų pasirinkimo 2016 m. Seimo rinkimuose veiksnių analizė, tiriant rinkėjų polinkį balsuoti už septynias didžiąsias Lietuvos partijas, išbandomos ir įvertinamos metodologinės galimybės analizuoti „bendrinė…
Elektroninės Demokratijos Projektas Siūlo Naujas Piliečių Ir Valdžios Komunikacijos Formas
Nuo 2007 m. rugsėjo Vilniaus universiteto Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų institutas kartu su Kauno technologijos ir Mykolo Romerio universitetais įgyvendina ambicingą projektą „Demokratija žinių visuomenėje: iššūkių ir galimybių analizė“ (e. demokratija). Projekto tikslas – nustatyti esmines demokratijos funkcionavimo šiuolaikinėje informacinėje visuomenėje problemas ir pasiūlyti efektyvius būdus joms spręsti, taikant naująsias informa…
Kodėl Žmonės Nestoja Į Partijas? Lietuvos Gyventojų Požiūrio Į Partinę Narystę Analizė
Partisan activity has been the main and the most important mode of institutionalized political participation (in addition to electoral participation) in the modern democracy. Even though mass party membership is a distinct feature of modern political system (although not necessarily democratic), since 1960-ies the decline of party membership is observed in many democratic countries. Lithuania is a typical example of post-communist region, where …
Partinė Tapatybė Lietuvoje – Šeimos Socializacijos, Politinių Skirčių Ar Įpročio Padarinys
Why do people tend to vote for the same political party many years, despite the fact that parties change their electoral programs, their leaders and their candidates in elections? Why do they tend to justify the actions of the party much more easily than others? The answer to those questions is provided by the party identification theory originating in the prominent Michigan school of electoral behaviour research.While there is some evidence that…
Kas ilgisi sovietmečio? Ekonominio statuso, socialinės aplinkos ir vertybinių nuostatų įtaka sovietinei - antisovietinei skirčiai Lietuvoje
While more than 20 years have passed from the collapse of the Soviet regime, the Lithuanian society is still deeply divided by different attitudes towards the life in the former regime. The soviet - anti-soviet attitudes allow predicting voting behavior of the Lithuanian electorate far better than any other socioeconomic or attitudinal factor. The goal of the article is to explore the determinants of the attitudes toward the soviet past of the Li…
Stipriųjų ir silpnųjų ryšių svarba protesto mobilizacijai
In analysing the dynamics and mechanisms of mass protest from 1987 to 1988 in Lithuania, this article explores what kind of social ties - strong or weak - are conducive to the mobilisation of collective action in a (post-)totalitarian society. The empirical analysis is based on data collected as part of the 2009-2011 research project 'The Phenomenon of Sąjūdis: Network Analysis of a Civic Movement'. First, the article defines the distinction betw…
Creat ing One’s Own Reality as Resistance
This article aims at demonstrating that an alternative to Soviet society –a socium with expanded parallel institutions of education, information and culture that were independent of the regime and impervious to its ideology existed in Soviet Lithuania which answers the idea of ‘parallel polis’ developed by Vaclav Benda, the famous Czech dissident and theoretician. To substantiate the above statement, first of all the concept of ‘parallel society’…
Lietuvos politikos mokslų dešimtmečiui skirta konferencija
This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries
This paper was co-authored by Jurgen Maier, Thorsten Faas, Berthold Rittberger, Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, Kalliope Agapiou Josifides, Susan Banducci, Paolo Bellucci, Magnus Blomgren, Inta Brikse, Karol Chwedczuk-Szulc, Marina Costa Lobo, Mikolaj Czesnik, Anastasia Deligiaouri, Tomaz Dezelan, Wouter deNooy, Aldo Di Virgilio, Florin Fesnic, Danica Fink-Hafner, Marijana Grbesa, Carmen Greab, Andrija Henjak, David Nicolas Hopmann, David Johann, Gabo…
Does communist nostalgia lead to Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs
Why are people in Central and Eastern Europe more hesitant towards COVID-19 vaccination and more prone to believe in COVID-19 related conspiracy theories than other Europeans? The article claims that the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs in the post-communist region might be fostered by communist nostalgia. Drawing on the survey data from Lithuania, I show that communist nostalgia is one of the best predictors of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, …
Mapping the political space in Lithuania
Party politics in Europe is mainly structured along two dominant dimensions: economic left–right and cultural liberalism–conservatism. This article explores whether these dimensions explain party competition in post-communist Lithuania. The study begins with an analysis of the policy space in Lithuania using party elite data and continues by exploring the attitudes of party supporters. The study demonstrates that an apparent ideological structuri…
Exploring Political Bias in Captured Media
The article presents an exploratory study of regional media content in Lithuania, carried out using computational content analysis methods. The aim of the study is to reveal the effects of media capture on media content. More specifically, it analyses if and how local government’s control over regional mass media leads to media bias. In addition, the research aims to test the methods of automatic content analysis for the texts in Lithuanian langu…
Kodėl Žmonės Nestoja Į Partijas? Lietuvos Gyventojų Požiūrio Į Partinę Narystę Analizė
Partisan activity has been the main and the most important mode of institutionalized political participation (in addition to electoral participation) in the modern democracy. Even though mass party membership is a distinct feature of modern political system (although not necessarily democratic), since 1960-ies the decline of party membership is observed in many democratic countries. Lithuania is a typical example of post-communist region, where …
Kas ilgisi sovietmečio? Ekonominio statuso, socialinės aplinkos ir vertybinių nuostatų įtaka sovietinei - antisovietinei skirčiai Lietuvoje
While more than 20 years have passed from the collapse of the Soviet regime, the Lithuanian society is still deeply divided by different attitudes towards the life in the former regime. The soviet - anti-soviet attitudes allow predicting voting behavior of the Lithuanian electorate far better than any other socioeconomic or attitudinal factor. The goal of the article is to explore the determinants of the attitudes toward the soviet past of the Li…
Lietuvos politikos mokslų dešimtmečiui skirta konferencija
Creat ing One’s Own Reality as Resistance
This article aims at demonstrating that an alternative to Soviet society –a socium with expanded parallel institutions of education, information and culture that were independent of the regime and impervious to its ideology existed in Soviet Lithuania which answers the idea of ‘parallel polis’ developed by Vaclav Benda, the famous Czech dissident and theoretician. To substantiate the above statement, first of all the concept of ‘parallel society’…
Stipriųjų ir silpnųjų ryšių svarba protesto mobilizacijai
In analysing the dynamics and mechanisms of mass protest from 1987 to 1988 in Lithuania, this article explores what kind of social ties - strong or weak - are conducive to the mobilisation of collective action in a (post-)totalitarian society. The empirical analysis is based on data collected as part of the 2009-2011 research project 'The Phenomenon of Sąjūdis: Network Analysis of a Civic Movement'. First, the article defines the distinction betw…
Kas ilgisi sovietmečio? Ekonominio statuso, socialinės aplinkos ir vertybinių nuostatų įtaka sovietinei - antisovietinei skirčiai Lietuvoje
While more than 20 years have passed from the collapse of the Soviet regime, the Lithuanian society is still deeply divided by different attitudes towards the life in the former regime. The soviet - anti-soviet attitudes allow predicting voting behavior of the Lithuanian electorate far better than any other socioeconomic or attitudinal factor. The goal of the article is to explore the determinants of the attitudes toward the soviet past of the Li…
Partinė Tapatybė Lietuvoje – Šeimos Socializacijos, Politinių Skirčių Ar Įpročio Padarinys
Why do people tend to vote for the same political party many years, despite the fact that parties change their electoral programs, their leaders and their candidates in elections? Why do they tend to justify the actions of the party much more easily than others? The answer to those questions is provided by the party identification theory originating in the prominent Michigan school of electoral behaviour research.While there is some evidence that…
Elektroninės Demokratijos Projektas Siūlo Naujas Piliečių Ir Valdžios Komunikacijos Formas
Nuo 2007 m. rugsėjo Vilniaus universiteto Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų institutas kartu su Kauno technologijos ir Mykolo Romerio universitetais įgyvendina ambicingą projektą „Demokratija žinių visuomenėje: iššūkių ir galimybių analizė“ (e. demokratija). Projekto tikslas – nustatyti esmines demokratijos funkcionavimo šiuolaikinėje informacinėje visuomenėje problemas ir pasiūlyti efektyvius būdus joms spręsti, taikant naująsias informa…
Kodėl Žmonės Nestoja Į Partijas? Lietuvos Gyventojų Požiūrio Į Partinę Narystę Analizė
Partisan activity has been the main and the most important mode of institutionalized political participation (in addition to electoral participation) in the modern democracy. Even though mass party membership is a distinct feature of modern political system (although not necessarily democratic), since 1960-ies the decline of party membership is observed in many democratic countries. Lithuania is a typical example of post-communist region, where …
Polyphony and Multidimensionalism of the Traditional Music
Polinkis Balsuoti Už Partiją Kaip Naujas Elgesio Per Rinkimus Analizės Būdas
Šiame straipsnyje analizuojamos iki šiol Lietuvoje nenaudoto preferencijų per rinkimus matavimo įrankio – polinkio balsuoti už partiją (PBP) – atveriamos galimybės ir jį naudojant kylančios metodologinės problemos. Straipsnyje pristatoma rinkėjų pasirinkimo 2016 m. Seimo rinkimuose veiksnių analizė, tiriant rinkėjų polinkį balsuoti už septynias didžiąsias Lietuvos partijas, išbandomos ir įvertinamos metodologinės galimybės analizuoti „bendrinė…
This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries
This paper was co-authored by Jurgen Maier, Thorsten Faas, Berthold Rittberger, Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, Kalliope Agapiou Josifides, Susan Banducci, Paolo Bellucci, Magnus Blomgren, Inta Brikse, Karol Chwedczuk-Szulc, Marina Costa Lobo, Mikolaj Czesnik, Anastasia Deligiaouri, Tomaz Dezelan, Wouter deNooy, Aldo Di Virgilio, Florin Fesnic, Danica Fink-Hafner, Marijana Grbesa, Carmen Greab, Andrija Henjak, David Nicolas Hopmann, David Johann, Gabo…
Qui a conduit la « Révolution chantante » à travers la Lituanie ? Une typologie des pionniers du mouvement du Sąjūdis
L'article explore l'expansion de Mouvement réformateur de Lituanie (Sąjūdis) qui a contribué à la chute du régime soviétique. En particulier, il enquête sur ceux qui ont été les pionniers du mouvement dans différentes régions. En prenant appui sur l'approche théorique de Pierre Bourdieu et les données de l'histoire orale, l'article analyse les conditions objectives et subjectives qui ont conduit certains vers les rangs des « révolutionnaires » et…
Interviewer Effect on the Survey Data in Lithuania
The article analyses the interviewer effect on the data of three public opinion surveys on political attitudes of the population conducted in Lithuania. The study discusses why in international comparative studies Lithuania stands out for its extremely high interviewer effect, which raises serious doubts about the reliability and suitability of the data for analysis. The article, first, reviews the reasons for the interviewer effect and the metho…
Mapping the political space in Lithuania
Party politics in Europe is mainly structured along two dominant dimensions: economic left–right and cultural liberalism–conservatism. This article explores whether these dimensions explain party competition in post-communist Lithuania. The study begins with an analysis of the policy space in Lithuania using party elite data and continues by exploring the attitudes of party supporters. The study demonstrates that an apparent ideological structuri…
The Phenomenon of the Freedom Party
The article analyzes the reasons of success of the Freedom Party in the 2020 Seimas elections. The case of Freedom Party is particularly interesting as it did not appeal to the median voter like previous new parties, but took a clearly liberal stance on such vulnerable issues (in rather conservative Lithuanian society) as LGBT rights. The article examines several probable accounts of the success story of the party: the newness of the party, the v…
Exploring Political Bias in Captured Media
The article presents an exploratory study of regional media content in Lithuania, carried out using computational content analysis methods. The aim of the study is to reveal the effects of media capture on media content. More specifically, it analyses if and how local government’s control over regional mass media leads to media bias. In addition, the research aims to test the methods of automatic content analysis for the texts in Lithuanian langu…
Does communist nostalgia lead to Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs
Why are people in Central and Eastern Europe more hesitant towards COVID-19 vaccination and more prone to believe in COVID-19 related conspiracy theories than other Europeans? The article claims that the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs in the post-communist region might be fostered by communist nostalgia. Drawing on the survey data from Lithuania, I show that communist nostalgia is one of the best predictors of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, …
The Collapse of Communism as the End of the Modernity Project? Post-Soviet Transformation Narratives of the Lithuanian Population
The article analyses how Lithuanian inhabitants remember and assess the post-communist transformation and searches for the narratives that can be interpreted through the lens of modernization theories. The paper draws on a dataset of 43 biographical interviews collected in 2021 in Panevėžys city and Panevėžys district. Employing the method of thematic narrative analysis, four dominant narratives of post-soviet transformation were identified: “dem…
Gyventi šalia agresoriaus
What determines the willingness to defend one’s country in states that live next to an aggressive neighbor? This article analyzes three countries with similar geopolitical situations – Lithuania, Latvia, and Taiwan. The aim of the article is to assess the level of willingness to defend one’s country and the factors influencing it in Lithuania, Latvia, and Taiwan, based on public opinion surveys conducted in all three countries. The article is div…
Tracing the Influence of the Folklore Revival on Lithuania’s National Independence Movement
The article explores the connections between the Lithuanian folklore revival movement, which emerged in the 1960s, and the Lithuanian national independence movement of the late 1980s.Using resource mobilization theory, it seeks to identify tangible links and resources that connected these two movements, rather than focusing on psychological or abstract symbolic ties.Based on over 100 oral history interviews conducted by the author and colleagues,…
What drives Voter Affective Polarization – Issue Positions or Party Support? Results of a Conjoint Experiment
The article analyzes affective polarization in Lithuania among voters of different parties, aiming to determine what drives their political antagonism: partisanship or specific issue-based attitudes, such as support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, views on same-sex marriage, support for the European Union, evaluations of the Soviet period, and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines. The study employs a new tool in Lithuanian political scienc…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Lithuanian (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Communism (4 works)